The Devils: The Possessed (Penguin Classics)
(The Possessed) (Classics)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN: | 9780140440355 |
Publisher: | Penguin Classics |
Published: | 27 September, 1973 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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The Devils: The Possessed (Penguin Classics)
(The Possessed) (Classics)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In The Devils Dostoyevsky created a chilling and prophetic story of revolutionaries and nihilists plotting the overthrow of the Russian government and the downfall of the Russian church. It focuses on the complex and tormented character of Stavrogin, a desperate man whose loss of faith makes him dangerous. Believing he is beyond guilt and remorse, he commits terrible crimes, infects others with ideas he does not believe in and accepts love he does not deserve. Yet Stavrogin is only one of a small band of rebels whose hunger for a more democratic, Western system threatens the fabric of Russian society, and The Devils is a brilliant psychological analysis of a group of people possessed by a destructive passion for revolution.
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